NRB’s 7th birthday biggest-ever giveaway #4
So many goodies in one book pack as our 7th birthday celebrations continue this month. To go in the draw to win all six of these books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 25 March 2019 with ‘birthday #4’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only, please. Here are the details of these SIX fabulous books:
Jan Golembiewski Magic
The true story of what happens when a young man sets off on a journey to find out if magic still exists in the world. From an encounter with a Rastafarian Don Juan in the Caribbean, he moves through the Americas and Europe and ultimately to the source of this knowledge in Mother Africa, where he is imprisoned, tortured and sold as a slave. A spiritual and physical adventure unlike no other.
Courtesy of Transit Lounge
Martine Murray The Last Summer of Ada Bloom
In a small country town during one long hot summer, the Bloom family begins to unravel. Marital secrets, new and long-hidden, surface with devastating effect. When nine-year-old Ada discovers an abandoned well beneath a rusting windmill, she is drawn to its darkness and danger. And when she witnesses a shocking and confusing event, the well looms large in her mind as events lead inexorably towards tragedy.
Courtesy of Text Publishing
John Lanchester The Wall
The new novel from the author of Capital and The Debt to Pleasure. Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he’s lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. He will soon find out what Defenders do and who the Others are. With the rest of his squad, he endures cold and fear day after day, night after night. But somewhere in the dark cave of his mind, he thinks, wouldn’t it be interesting if something did happen? If they came, and you had to fight for your life?
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Lisa Walker Melt
In this new novel from the author of Liar Bird and Sex, Lies and Bonsai, Summer Wright, hippie turned TV production assistant, finds herself impersonating adventure-show queen Cougar Gale in Antarctica: learning glaciology and climate science on the fly, building a secret igloo, improvising scripts based on Dynasty, and above all trying not to be revealed as an imposter. Can she make a success of Cougar on Ice? Where is the science minister? And what is the Krill Question?
Courtesy of Lacuna Publishing
Ben Doherty Nagaland
The Naga are a forgotten people living in the far north-east of India, struggling to survive in the modern world. This debut novel, written by a former foreign correspondent, traverses the hinterland between biography and mythology in the beautiful mountain state of Nagaland, beginning with the arrival of a diary bearing the message: We live forever through our stories. Tell ours.
Courtesy of Wild Dingo Press
Michael Pollan How to Change Your Mind: The new science of psychedelics
Michael Pollan takes a journey to the frontiers of the human mind. Could drugs like LSD, psilocybin and DMT improve the lives and ease the suffering of many people? This book is both a history of psychedelics and a portrait of a new generation of scientists fascinated by the implications of these drugs. Is this the future of consciousness?
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Remember, to go in the draw to win all SIX books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 25 March 2019 with ‘birthday #4’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email.
